Genesis 13:16

The Lord's Third Promise To Abram

¹⁵ for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age. ¹⁶ And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered; ¹⁷ rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'

Dust of the Earth

Of The Earth

Genesis 28:14

and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

Numbers 23:10

Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

Genesis 15:5

and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, 'Thus is thy seed.'

Genesis 22:17

that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 32:12

and Thou -- Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'

1 Kings 3:8

and Thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,

Genesis 12:2-3

And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

Genesis 17:6

and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

Genesis 17:16

and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'

Genesis 17:20

As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

Genesis 18:18

and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

Genesis 21:13

As to the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he is thy seed.'

Genesis 25:1-34

And Abraham addeth and taketh a wife, and her name is Keturah;

Genesis 26:4

and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;

Genesis 28:3

and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;

Genesis 35:11

And God saith to him, 'I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

Genesis 36:1-43

And these are births of Esau, who is Edom.

Genesis 46:3

And He saith, 'I am God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there;

Exodus 1:7

and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

Exodus 32:13

'Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;'

Deuteronomy 1:10

Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye are to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

Judges 6:3

And it hath been, if Israel hath sowed, that Midian hath come up, and Amalek, and the sons of the east, yea, they have come up against him,

Judges 6:5

for they and their cattle come up, with their tents; they come in as the fulness of the locust for multitude, and of them and of their cattle there is no number, and they come into the land to destroy it.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel are many, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

1 Chronicles 21:5

And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah is four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.

1 Chronicles 27:23

And David hath not taken up their number from a son of twenty years and under, for Jehovah said to multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

2 Chronicles 17:14-18

And these are their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valour, three hundred chiefs.

Isaiah 48:18-19

O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.'

Romans 4:16-18

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

Hebrews 11:12

wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

Revelation 7:9

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,